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Azuka Theatre Continues 2015-2016 Season with Second World Premiere Local Girls by Emma Goidel Runs February 24 – March 13 PHILADELPHIA – Azuka Theatre continues its 16th season with its 10th World Premiere by a local playwright. Emma Goidel's Local Girls is a scream rock fantasia about searching for big-time glory in a small-time town. The play runs February 24-March 13. It opens Saturday, February 27 at 7 p.m. All performances take place in the Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 1512 Spruce Street. Tickets are available online at www.azukatheatre.org or by phone at (215) 563-1100.
Local Girls is a play with music in the vein of Azuka's Pookie Goes Grenading (2012). Written by Goidel, a member of the Philadelphia playwriting consortium, Orbiter3, the play introduces audiences to Diskit (Anna Zaida Szapiro), a high school chemistry genius in desperate need of friends who aren't her dad, and Riley (Mary Tuomanen), the high school burnout who needs a new screamer for her metal band. The Zombie Fuel Energy Drink Wreak Ruckus Battle of the Bands could transform them both from high school losers into rock gods, but will the contest be enough to get them out of Tucker, Georgia?
Allison Heishman, Azuka's Associate Artistic Director, is directing this World Premiere. Anna Zaida Szapiro, returning to Azuka after playing the lead in Tigers Be Still (2014), plays Diskit. Mary Tuomanen plays Riley in her first appearance at Azuka after playing Pookie in Pookie Goes Grenading. Tabitha Allen was last at Azuka as Jenny June in Failure: A Love Story. Sam Henderson makes his first appearance at Azuka playing Francis, and Jahzeer Terrell makes his Azuka debut as Roe.
Local Girls is a play with music in the vein of Azuka's Pookie Goes Grenading (2012). Written by Goidel, a member of the Philadelphia playwriting consortium, Orbiter3, the play introduces audiences to Diskit (Anna Zaida Szapiro), a high school chemistry genius in desperate need of friends who aren't her dad, and Riley (Mary Tuomanen), the high school burnout who needs a new screamer for her metal band. The Zombie Fuel Energy Drink Wreak Ruckus Battle of the Bands could transform them both from high school losers into rock gods, but will the contest be enough to get them out of Tucker, Georgia?
Allison Heishman, Azuka's Associate Artistic Director, is directing this World Premiere. Anna Zaida Szapiro, returning to Azuka after playing the lead in Tigers Be Still (2014), plays Diskit. Mary Tuomanen plays Riley in her first appearance at Azuka after playing Pookie in Pookie Goes Grenading. Tabitha Allen was last at Azuka as Jenny June in Failure: A Love Story. Sam Henderson makes his first appearance at Azuka playing Francis, and Jahzeer Terrell makes his Azuka debut as Roe.
